CAP1

What is the project about?

CAP1 – Carribean-Albanian Poly-criminal Network Elicitation

With a consortium in 7 EU countries and 1 associated partner, CAP1 focuses the nexus ‘Latin-American-Caribbean-Western Balkans drug trafficking and trafficking in human beings’ in the poly-criminal environment and the all crime- approach related to money-laundering and a great focus on victims’ rights. CAP1 focuses on the fight against organised crime by dismantling targeted criminal networks and their business models prevalent in this nexus by research and analysis on the Western Balkans and the Caribbean, supported by synchronic Open Source Intelligence/Big Data analysis; CAP1 joins multi-source information, incl. criminal justice actors’ files and Web-based information, to allow enhanced investigative cooperation. CAP1 strengthens international cooperation with key partners along drug and human supply routes, reinforce law enforcement and judicial cooperation with non-EU countries.

This project is funded by the European Union
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Details

Status: Ongoing

What is the role of the IPoS?

In the CAP1 project IPoS as the executing department of the HfÖV has the LEAD role and together with the partners, will plan, organize, monitor and manage the resources and work necessary to deliver thee specific project goals and objectives in an effective and efficient way.

The consortium will establish Working Groups to which experts and practitioners are invited to jointly research and analyze the focal points and exchange information with each other. This will form the basis for formulating strategies, best practices and recommendations for relevant stakeholders. These results are then offered by the project partners in the form of training courses and seminars. The project partners will disseminate all relevant activities and results of the CAP1 project.

Objectives

Overall Objective: Implement the project according to the Grant Agreement by planning, organising, securing, monitoring and managing the resources and work necessary to deliver specific project goals and objectives in an effective and efficient way (PM2 Methodology).

Specific Objectives:

To undertake necessary central project and process management functions to support the project in meeting the objectives.
To better understand the mechanisms applied in different sectors by criminal networks and to evaluate from operational practitioners’ perspective the functioning of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice with a focus on Criminal Networks-related issued and organised crime as well as to exchange operational and procedural information directly between Member States’ authorities and in relation to
applicable EU instruments.
To analyse Criminal Networks to expand specific research, knowledge and understanding in law enforcement, prosecution services and the wider public, incl. generating reliable case-law data on Criminal Networks for evidence-based policy-making at domestic and EU level.
To develop and disseminate good practices in the prevention of or fight against Criminal Networks across the EU in specific vulnerable thematical areas and to support anti-Criminal Networks actions of multi-, inter- and cross-sectoral public and private institutions, incl. civil
society organisations.
To disseminate good practices in the prevention of or fight against Criminal Networks across the EU, specifically with a view to the new Network of Practitioners against Criminal Networks and the OCTs. To support the work carried out by Member States’ competent authorities in the prevention and fight against Criminal Networks in the selected topical areas.

Type of people benefiting from the project

law enforcement (constabulary, criminal police, ministries of interior)
justice sector (courts, court staff, judges, public prosecutors)
public social services (from ministries to street-workers)
CSOs providing services directly to victims of crime
CSOs specialising in psycho-social accompaniment
CSOs mandated by the judiciary to provide Victim-Offender Mediation services
legal advisors• counsellors• alternative dispute settlement experts.

Expected results

The overall long-term goal of CAP1 is to contribute to effective, efficient, and coherent cooperation between the relevant actors in the area of Organized Crime.

Specifically, these will be:

Result/Impact/Outcome 1: Collected and Analyzed Data
Result/Impact/Outcome 2: Training Material
Result/Impact/Outcome 3: Improved knowledge and cooperation among practitioners

The consortium